[KLUG Members] CMYK for GIMP, is this a big deal?

[Andrew Thompson]

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 18:05, Adam Williams wrote:
> On freshmeat.net -
> CMYK Plugin for The GIMP 0.1 
>  by blackfive  - Thursday, July 17th
> 2003 14:51 PDT
> 
> About: Th CMYK GIMP plugin allows RGB -> CMYK separation within the
> GIMP, using littlecms for colour-management, and allows the result to be
> saved as a CMYK TIFF. 

Finally! With this, the GIMP might just have a chance in the print
industry.

> Everytime I've heard someone 'dis the GIMP, they point to the antiquated
> RGB model and say "real" packages use CMYK.  So is the above
> significant?  (From a graphics ignoramous).

It is VERY significant in the print publishing industry. EVERY printer
who makes ANY serious money is doing color in CMYK. I'll spare you the
color theory this round, but trust me: no graphic designer is going to
look twice at a package that DOESN'T support this, no matter how cheap
they can get it. It ain't easy, either. Here's an article that should
give you an idea just how complicated it can get: 
http://www.digitaloutput.net/back%20edit/oct02/feature2.html (And you
thought Crayola was cool! ;)

-- 
Andrew Thompson <tempes@ameritech.net>
The Imagerie